hunting-evtx-with-chainsaw SKILL.md skillA
hunting-evtx-with-chainsaw from adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/hunting-evtx-with-chainsaw@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai
- Path
cursor-claude-codex/skills/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills/skills/hunting-evtx-with-chainsaw/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Jun 25, 2026
- Size
- 8,170 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- MIT
Perform rapid Sigma and keyword hunting across Windows event logs with.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Hunting EVTX with Chainsaw ## Overview Chainsaw is a fast, Rust-based forensic artifact search and hunting tool from WithSecure Labs. It provides first-response capability to rapidly identify threats within Windows Event Logs (`.evtx`) and other artifacts. Chainsaw can hunt with the full SigmaHQ rule corpus (translating Sigma to its internal Tau engine), run its own built-in detection rules, perform high-speed keyword/regex search across logs, and analyse specialized artifacts such as the AppCompatCache (shimcache), SRUM database, and event-log gaps. Output can be a colorized table, CSV, or JSON for downstream tooling. Chainsaw's strength is speed and flexibility during initial triage: an analyst can drop a folder of collected EVTX onto the tool and get back a prioritized set of detections in seconds, then pivot with targeted `search` queries to confirm a hypothesis. Unlike a SIEM, it needs no ingestion pipeline, runs as a single binary, and works fully offline against acquired evidence — ideal for the field or an air-gapped analysis VM. The `--mapping` file tells Chainsaw how Sigma fields translate to Windows event fields, which is what enables broad Sigma coverage over… …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/hunting-evtx-with-chainsaw@sha256:9d2b204949d79d6cThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mvhr3hwm2qvosiwg)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 25, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8170 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai · 69 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mvhr3hwm2qvosiwg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=adriannoes/awesome-agentic-ai/hunting-evtx-with-chainsaw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9d2b204949d79d6cbf57c986a7ab721afda9317149f7d405d004ce8d81c87900
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